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Examples of walls that just didn't work

Posted
Friday, January 18, 2019 1:32 pm

Im sorry, walls don't work.

The best known example is the Great Wall of China. It was breached more often than history records by an ingenious means, they bribed the guards. Walls fail, even if they're the only man made construction you can see from the space shuttle.

But consider this: Hannibal, in 218 B.C. crossed a wall that towered some 15,000 feet. Never heard of it? It's called "The Alps." He didn't overcome this "wall" with just family members in tow, he packed elephants as well. Some times walls fail, even if they reach to the sky.

Vatican City indeed has a wall to protect those human and religious treasures inside, like the Pope. In 1981 the first assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II was launched by a Turkish national INSIDE the wall, INSIDE Vatican City. Walls don't always work, even when they're upheld with prayer.

Gen. George S. Patton said "Man made fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity. Anything constructed by man, can be overcome by man." How sensible is that?

Put a 30' border wall in the Alps, it will be 15,030' high. It can easily be overcome with a 31' ladder. Sometimes walls fail even if they're designed by the greatest military minds throughout history.

So consider this: I know this letter changes no minds on either side. If Trump supporters don't care about his 5,000 verifiable lies and counting since election, they won't be swayed by truth and facts now. Democrats ask us to believe the border is "more secure than ever" without giving us the hard facts to back that up. I grew up as a conservative Democrat, I left the party and became a conservative Republican. I've been a conservative all my life.

I'm also sorry walls don't always work. Need more proof? If walls work so well, why are we in a "crisis" now?